landing : Idioms & Phrases
Landing charges
- charges or fees paid on goods unloaded from a vessel.
Webster 1913
Landing net
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noun a bag-shaped fishnet on a long handle to take a captured fish from the water
WordNet
- a small, bag-shaped net, used in fishing to take the fish from the water after being hooked.
Webster 1913
Landing place
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noun structure providing a place where boats can land people or goods
landing.
WordNet
- . me as
Landing , n., 2 and 3.
Webster 1913
Landing stage
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noun platform from which passengers and cargo can be (un)loaded
WordNet
- a floating platform attached at one end to a wharf in such a manner as to rise and fall with the tide, and thus facilitate passage between the wharf and a vessel lying beside the stage.
Webster 1913
Landing waiter
- a customhouse officer who oversees the landing of goods, etc., from vessels; a landwaiter.